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I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

Pat Summitt

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
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Patience Right Wait
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
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Athlete Equality Person Student
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
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Common Discipline Effort Goal Group
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
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Care Oneself Reputation Tough
I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
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Better Break Challenge People Thinking Yourself
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
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Discipline Goal Teaching
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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Better Game Shoot Sports Yourself
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
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Example Leadership Myself Right
I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
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Appearance Choice Day Tired Yourself
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
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Attitude Creation Practice Way Win Yourself
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
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Advice Champion Comfortable Old Willing
I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking
I think I can help others just by my example.
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Example Help Thinking
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
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Communication Silence Voice
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
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End Perspective Start Success Yourself
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

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